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U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Phoenix Ban, a rifleman with Echo Co., 4th Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 4th Marine Division, Marine Forces Reserve, sights in on his rifle during Integrated Training Exercise (ITX) 4-23 at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California on June 16, 2023. As the Marine Corps Reserve’s premier annual training event, ITX provides opportunities to mobilize geographically dispersed forces for a deployment; increase combat readiness and lethality; and exercise MAGTF command and control of battalions and squadrons across the full spectrum of warfare. Ban is a native of Syracuse, New York where he graduated from Henninger High School. Ban’s civilian job is a commercial excavator.(U.S. Marine Corps photo by. Cpl. Ryan Schmid)